conclusions physicians should be aware of the signs and symptoms of different pain sources to prevent misdiagnosis and maltreatment. introduction fracture of the styloid process (sp) of the temporal bone is a rare traumatic injury in normal individuals who are not suffering from eagle’s syndrome. diagnosis and management of this problem requires comprehensive knowledge about its signs and sympt...

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One day in last October I was hurriedly called to see a European child, who was suffering from fever and had a convulsion an hour previously. Three days after characteristic variolar eruptions appeared on the wrist and forehead. The small-pox gradually extended and became confluent. Two days after a younger brother of the child got fever and afterwards small-pox. On the 9th day of his illness t...

1Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, The First Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen 361003, China 2Buffalo General Medical Center, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA 3Department of Rheumatology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200001, China 4Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatolog...

in this study to determine whether spine stiffness is predictive of clinical results after lumbar spinal fusion for spinal stenosis, a total of 78 patients were measured intraoperatively with kocher clamp manual distraction technique to determine motion segment stiffness then spinal fusion was performed for any loose segment. ‎statistical analysis revealed that stiffness measurement correlate w...